“So Pran went to see the killing fields. Each of the two main execution areas alone, he says, held the bones of four to five thousand bodies, thinly covered by a layer of earth.
‘In the water wells, the bodies were like soup bones in broth,’ he says. ‘And you could always tell the killing grounds because the grass grew taller and greener where the bodies were buried.’
Similar reports have come from every village in Cambodia: tall green grass and choked wells.”
—The Killing Fields, Page 98-99
![21](https://www.beyondthekillingfields.com/wp-content/gallery/chapter-two-the-killing-fields/bip-2-21-500.jpg "Page 103 – An enlargement of the original 35mm transparency, which was taken with Schanberg’s camera by a friend of Pran’s at the refugee camp. In Schanberg’s words: \\"The picture shows us in the front yard of the Surin Refugee Camp on October 10, 1979, as he is about to be released from the camp in my custody. We drove that day to Bangkok for another week or so of processing before returning to the United States. The picture was taken two days after the initial reunion — he has thrown away his peasant clothes and is wearing western clothes I hastily purchased for him.\\"")
![26](https://www.beyondthekillingfields.com/wp-content/gallery/chapter-two-the-killing-fields/bip-2-26-500.jpg "Page 111 – In Robert Wood Johnson Hospital in New Jersey, with baby Nathan Pran Dith, daughter-in-law Antoinette, and son Titonath holding grandson \\"little Sydney\\" Dith, February 22, 2008. (Photo: Jane Schanberg)")
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